Selecting Sources

Now that you know the wide range of sources available to you, how do you select the best one for your research?

If you need:
You might try:
Background information, such as the history of the railroads or statistics on the number of children immunized against diseases in the United States
books
Books
Popular articles about new movies or social trends

magazines
Magazines
Current information about a speech yesterday by the head of Ford Motor Company

newspaper
Newspapers or the Internet
Scholarly articles about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) or the human genome
journal
Journals
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